Pancreatic Cystosis in Two Adolescents with Cystic Fibrosis

We present pancreatic cystosis in two adolescents with cystic fibrosis, a 13-year-old girl and an 18-year-old boy. In pancreatic cystosis, which is a rare manifestation of CF, the pancreatic parenchyma is replaced with multiple cysts of different sizes. Pancreatic cystosis is mainly an imaging based...

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Autores principales: Hatziagorou, Elpis, Kampouras, Asterios, Sidiropoulou, Maria, Markou, Andreas, Anastasiou, Athanasia, Tsanakas, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4823490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27110419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5321785
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Sumario:We present pancreatic cystosis in two adolescents with cystic fibrosis, a 13-year-old girl and an 18-year-old boy. In pancreatic cystosis, which is a rare manifestation of CF, the pancreatic parenchyma is replaced with multiple cysts of different sizes. Pancreatic cystosis is mainly an imaging based diagnosis and frequent follow-up should be recommended.

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